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wiped out - 4.27.26

Even the promise of war can’t wake me up.  Hizballah has been teasing us into conflict and it was clear that they would have to be addressed.  I expect it within days. 

On the other hand, we are so in need of peace we do everything to make tentative plans for better things.

A facebook friend from Gaza asked me to support people there and send money, and I am frozen.  I haven’t even answered him all week.  The implications are too confusing for me.  Would money actually  help? Would it mean that I think they were right?  Would it be used against me the way other attempts in the past have been used to prove my guilt?  I don’t feel guilty at all.  And that is why I don’t even answer the accusation of genocide.  I believe most of the people of Gaza would have taken over Israel and killed the inhabitants if they could, and they were warned and sustained whenever possible.  

And yet I would not have destroyed Sodom.

 

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delivery -4.24.26

i’ve been ordering online for years now.  It started out because of my back  – the reaching down to the bottom shelves, the heavy bags – it was all too much for me until I got my hips replaced.

But I got into the habit.

And every week a guy rings my door and leaves me half of what I ordered, but usually on time.  But yesterday, as I began to tell you, was a particularly busy day.  So when the groceries hadn’t arrived well over an hour after the time, I left.  A few hours later the phone rang. “Where are you running around? I’m ringing and there’s no answer!”  Assuming this was the delivery boy, I responded, “I’m out, but my husband is home.  If he’s not answering he’s probably asleep – just leave the bags at the door.” “You’re running around, and your husband is home?  That’s not right!”  This conversation went on for a while and I realized I didn’t even know he spoke Hebrew, and here he was kidding around with me over the phone.  

 

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my day - 4.23.26

For a month we shut down, and then the ceasefire woke us up.  And then we realized that the ceasefire could stop at any minute and we better get things done before Trump announces the war and the rockets start again.

So we went and bought a car.  

Not a very smart thing to do when you’re about to be bombed.  

nevertheless.

so i met with my editor afterward and we made plans for our launch of the book on poets and their graves, even though there’s a backlog of events in the city that were postponed because of the rockets – at least 2 years of culture to catch up with…  But if we don’t catch up quick, we’ll be overrun by the kitsch that has taken over the media – if we survive the rockets of course.

 

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the big Synagogue - 4.22.26

For Independence Day we went to visit the Great Synagogue that is finally being restored.  It’s been ugly for so long, its beauty defaced, on a street closed for renewal.  It was an amazing feeling to see the synagogue whose decline we’ve following for ages returning to its original function. I think it gives me a feeling that the country too can be restored to the place it was when Ezi’s grandfather built that dome in 1925.  The values were never completely pure, but they had a dream.

 

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experiment - 4.22.26

Since I am pretty much self-taught, and even on intuitive programs have no intuition, I never know what works.  So I’m trying this out and grateful for advice.  I’ve been doing one site or another for over 25 years initially because I wanted to describe what daily life is like in Tel Aviv – especially when the suicide bombers were all over the city and friends were dropping like flies.  After that period it emerged that there are always strange things happening here – and few people outside of the city know about it.  But I also had to prove that I am a real person.

Anyway, I’m finally connecting the jetpack with the wordpress sites and we’ll see what happens.  I may disconnect it at any moment because i prefer my relative anonymity. 

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independence - 4.21.26

It seems crazy – to move from such deep tragedy to joy.  but it works.  The fact of the terrible losses just don’t wipe out the amazing wonder of a country of our own.  With all the injustices we have perpetrated that we’re only beginning to understand….

oh, by the way, tomorrow is the deadline for the ceasefire, so we may be spending tomorrow night in the shelter.

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